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T E X T 1

Teaching English as a Global Language






Adapted from: https://bridge.edu/tefl/March 21, 2025


T E X T 2

How learning a new language changes your brain







Adapted from: https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2022/04/29. 
In the sentence “Bilingual people, who have learned two languages side by side from early childhood, have been studied by scientists for decades.” (lines 84-86) the verb tenses are, respectively,
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Q3768168 Inglês
T E X T 1

Teaching English as a Global Language






Adapted from: https://bridge.edu/tefl/March 21, 2025


T E X T 2

How learning a new language changes your brain







Adapted from: https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2022/04/29. 
In the sentences “Students who are learning English as a global language…” (lines 21-22), and “…English has more nonnative speakers than native speakers!” (lines 24-25), the verb tenses are, respectively,
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Q3768160 Inglês
T E X T 1

Teaching English as a Global Language






Adapted from: https://bridge.edu/tefl/March 21, 2025


T E X T 2

How learning a new language changes your brain







Adapted from: https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2022/04/29. 
In the sentence “The idea that communication matters more than grammatical precision is also important to help students develop strategies for what to do when communication breaks down.” (lines 32-35), the verbs are either in the 
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Mark the alternative that transforms Calvin’s sentence into reported speech:


“As soon as I save a little more money, I’ll buy a ticket.”

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Q3764987 Inglês
Which of the following sentences contains an incorrect negation?
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Q3764860 Inglês
Change the following sentence into Reported Speech: 'I will finish the report tomorrow,' said John. Judge the following statements as True (T) or False (F).
(__)John said that he would finish the report the following day.
(__)John said that he will finish the report tomorrow.
(__)John told that he would finish the report the next day.
(__)John said that he would finish the report tomorrow.

Mark the alternative that shows the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
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Q3764857 Inglês
Select the alternative that adheres to the rules of standard English subject-verb agreement.
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Q3764844 Inglês
Consider the following verb phrases taken from an academic argumentative text:
has long been
witnessed in the clause "the late 20th century witnessed ..."
suggests and empowers
Based on these forms and their uses in English, analyze the assertions below:
I.Has long been represents the Present Perfect Simple, indicating a state that started in the past and continues to the present.
II.Witnessed (in "the late 20th century witnessed ...") is in the Simple Past, referring to a definite time in the past.
III.Suggests and empowers are in the Simple Present, used here to express facts or theoretical truths within the author's argument.
Mark the option that presents only the correct statements.
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Q3763487 Inglês
During an advanced English class, a student asks about the difference between these two sentences: (1)“The teacher stopped talking to the students.” and (2)“The teacher stopped to talk to the students.”. The trainee teachers give different interpretations, and you must clarify the semantic aspects involved.

As a senior English teacher, you are guiding trainee teachers to analyze semantic nuances in classroom communication, consider the situation above and judge the following items, according to English semantics. 
The semantic distinction between (1) and (2) arises from aspectual complementation (gerund vs. infinitive). 73 From a 
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Q3762118 Inglês
A One-Man Recycling Revolution on The Cornish Coast

By Rupert Neate


(Available at: www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/fishing-nets-money-a-one-man-recyclingrevolution-on-the-cornish-coast – text specially adapted for this test). 
Analyze the statements below:

I. In “new machinery that can convert more than 20 kilos of nylon fishing nets an hour” (l. 12-13), “can” suggests ability.
II. In “It can be used for just about anything” (l. 19-20), “can” suggests permission.
III. In “Falconer could make a nice living” (l. 24), “make” is in its base form because it follows a modal verb.

Which ones are correct?
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Q3758792 Inglês
Leia o texto abaixo para responder da questão.

New Study: This Regional Accent Is Considered the Most Trustworthy in the U.S.—And the Results Will Really Surprise You!

By Jennifer Geddes

A person’s cadence counts for a lot.

Everyone knows first impressions are important— and we don’t just make them based on sight. Beyond a chic outfit and well-coiffed hair, how a person sounds can also be a big factor when forming an initial opinion. In fact, a recent analysis of more than a dozen American accents conducted by BetUS Casino found that some folks’ speech actually conveys more honesty and reliability than others’.

At this point, you’re probably praying your own voice sounds dependable, not shifty or shady, right? Try to relax, and then read on to learn (nay, hear!) where the most trustworthy accents are located.

How was the study conducted?

As with many studies today, internet data helped determine which parts of the country sound the most steadfast and true. BetUS Casino crafted the report, which is current as of Aug. 15, 2025, by focusing on how people feel about 14 different regional accents.

How did the company determine those feelings?

First, researchers looked at internet search terms like “friendly (accent)” or “professional (accent).” Then, to complete the rankings, they compiled data on the rate of financial crimes per 10,000 people, plus the number of lawyers and primary-care doctors in each area.

Why doctors and lawyers, you may ask? Well, these are professions that rely on trust—after all, you might have to put your life in their hands! The more of these professionals in an area, the more trustworthy the accent. Once the study authors had the information in hand, they weighted the data and ranked the regions on a scale of 1–100.

Which regional accent is considered the most trustworthy?

Now hear this: The regional accent that’s considered to be the most trustworthy hails from Boston!

Yup, the fine citizens of Beantown scored 56.1, which was enough to take top honors for sounding highly dependable. Boston ranks so strongly thanks to more than 23,300 searches related to how kind and upstanding the accent sounds. The Massachusetts capital and largest city in New England also sports a low level of financial crime and is home to tens of thousands of lawyers and doctors.

Boston shines in other ways too, underlining the trust factor essential to its distinctive accent. For example, one recent WalletHub report list Boston as the third most caring city in the nation, while another names Massachusetts as the best U.S. state to live in. And the Bay State has excellent health care, with the highest childhood vaccination rates, lowest infant mortality and fewest premature avoidable deaths.

Want to sound just like a Bostonian? Start by dropping some of your R’s, as in “pahk the cah” and “wicked smaht.” Or listen to Ben Affleck turn on the telltale accent in his Dunkin’ commercials. Other famous Bostonians with perfect inflection include Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg and Amy Poehler.

In: https://www.rd.com/article/happiest-cities-america-2025/ 
Considere o seguinte trecho do texto:
“Once the study authors had the information in hand, they weighted the data and ranked the regions on a scale of 1–100.”
Com base nesse trecho, analise as afirmativas a seguir:

I. O tempo verbal predominante é o past perfect, usado para indicar que uma ação foi concluída antes de outra no passado.
II. Os verbos “weighted” e “ranked” estão no past simple, e seus objetos diretos são, respectivamente, the data e the regions.
III. O verbo “had” funciona como verbo auxiliar na formação do past perfect, e o objeto direto da ação é the study authors.
IV. Não há objeto indireto explícito em nenhuma das orações do trecho citado.

Assinale a alternativa correta:
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Q3758293 Inglês
English perfect encodes current relevance, whereas the progressive profiles temporariness/process; aspect choices interact with genre and stance (cf. Comrie; Biber). Pick the best option.
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Q3753581 Inglês
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.


Tax rises and benefit cuts are on the horizon as Reeves prepares the UK for a bad-news budget


The UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has made it clear that taxes will go up, and more cuts to welfare spending are on the horizon. The moves will be deeply unpopular and controversial − but in an extraordinary press conference ahead of the UK budget on November 26, Reeves made it clear that she believes both will be necessary.

In a highly unusual move, the chancellor used the press conference to set out her priorities for balancing the books while growing the economy. Notably, she did not mention the pledge in Labour's manifesto not to raise taxes on working people or increase national insurance, VAT or income tax.

Instead, she said her focus was on lowering the burden of excessive government borrowing and debt, improving public services and tackling the cost of living.

Reeves gave particular importance to sticking with her "iron-clad" fiscal rules. These, she argued, were essential for showing she is being responsible with the nation's finances and preventing a further rise in the cost of borrowing (the interest the government pays on its debt).

At more than £100 billion per year, this already makes up 10% of all government spending. The government's spending watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), projects the total to rise to £111 billion by the next financial year.

She also emphasised the importance of measures to boost UK productivity. Productivity forecasts are expected to be downgraded by the OBR, heaping yet more pressure on the chancellor's budget choices. Reeves questioned whether the forecast would accurately predict the future − but has accepted that she will have to work within the OBR's constraints in this year's budget.

The chancellor is right that there is a pressing need to boost productivity. But it is by no means certain that planned investment in things like housing, nuclear power and a third runway at Heathrow will yield big gains, at least in the near term.

 At the same time, she made it clear that to meet her budget target there will need to be cuts to public spending. Some cuts will come from more "efficiency" savings by government departments (that perennial option that all chancellors reach for).

But they will also come from tackling the UK's rapidly rising welfare budget, focusing on the large number of young people who are not in education, employment or training but depend on state benefits (so-called "Neets").

Any cuts to the welfare budget, as well as a failure to abolish the two-child benefit limit (although she is under pressure from colleagues to bite the bullet and axe it), will cause dismay within the parliamentary Labour party as well as many party activists.

As ever, the budget choices will be political as well as economic. Both the Conservatives and Reform UK will accuse Labour of breaking its manifesto promises. They will also claim Labour is undermining any chance of growth by raising taxes by a larger amount than any UK government has done in the last 50 years.

 At the same time, it will become even more difficult for Labour to manage its large but fractious parliamentary majority. Earlier this year, backbenchers forced the government to restore the winter fuel payment for some pensioners and abandon plans to cut personal independence payments for disabled claimants.

Local government elections, as well as elections to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, are looming next May. Reeves risks further alienating Labour's grassroot supporters and pushing them towards smaller left-wing parties such as the Greens. They already seem to be pulling ahead of Labour among younger voters.

The stakes could not be higher. A bad result could even lead to questions about the future of both the chancellor and the prime minister Keir Starmer.

Finally, the chancellor's goal to cut the cost of living for working people does not seem particularly ambitious. Her suggested approach involves cutting energy costs by investing more in electricity generation, and reducing the cost of food by changing the business rates system to help small businesses.

Even if effective, these changes will take some time to work through and may not be enough to convince voters that Labour is on their side − particularly if inflation is not brought under control.

Reeves' appeal to the public to back her long-term approach to sorting out the British economy may be admirable. But the political risks to her personally − and Labour more broadly − remain considerable.


https://theconversation.com/tax-rises-and-benefit-cuts-are-on-the-horizo n-as-reeves-prepares-the-uk-for-a-bad-news-budget-269008
The text contains several instances of passive voice constructions. Examine this sentence: "Productivity forecasts are expected to be downgraded by the OBR, heaping yet more pressure on the chancellor's budget choices." This sentence uses passive voice with an infinitive construction. Understanding the transformation between active and passive voice, particularly with complex verb structures, is crucial for advanced writing. Which of the following correctly identifies the grammatical structure and appropriate active voice transformation?
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Q3751460 Inglês
In the sentence "She might travel to the beach this weekend, but she is not sure yet," what is the primary semantic function of the modal verb "might"?
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Text 2 – The Picture of Dorian Gray


The Picture of Dorian Gray, moral fantasy novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in 1891. An archetypal tale of a young man who purchases eternal youth at the expense of his soul, the work is a romantic exposition of Wilde’s own Aestheticism.

The story begins in the art studio of Basil Hallward, who is discussing a current painting with his witty and amoral friend Lord Henry Wotton. Henry thinks that the painting, a portrait of an extraordinarily beautiful young man, should be displayed, but Basil disagrees, fearing that his obsession with the portrait’s subject, Dorian Gray, can be seen in the work. Dorian then arrives, and he is fascinated as Henry explains his belief that one should live life to the fullest by indulging one’s impulses. Henry also points out that beauty and youth are fleeting, and Dorian declares that he would give his soul if the portrait were to grow old and wrinkled while he remained young and handsome. Basil gives the painting to Dorian.


From: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray-novel-by-Wilde. Accessed on 10/15/2025
Which of the following sentences correctly represents this statement “Basil gives the painting to Dorian.” in reported speech?
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Text 2 – The Picture of Dorian Gray


The Picture of Dorian Gray, moral fantasy novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in 1891. An archetypal tale of a young man who purchases eternal youth at the expense of his soul, the work is a romantic exposition of Wilde’s own Aestheticism.

The story begins in the art studio of Basil Hallward, who is discussing a current painting with his witty and amoral friend Lord Henry Wotton. Henry thinks that the painting, a portrait of an extraordinarily beautiful young man, should be displayed, but Basil disagrees, fearing that his obsession with the portrait’s subject, Dorian Gray, can be seen in the work. Dorian then arrives, and he is fascinated as Henry explains his belief that one should live life to the fullest by indulging one’s impulses. Henry also points out that beauty and youth are fleeting, and Dorian declares that he would give his soul if the portrait were to grow old and wrinkled while he remained young and handsome. Basil gives the painting to Dorian.


From: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray-novel-by-Wilde. Accessed on 10/15/2025
Identify the option in which the modal verb should is used with the same meaning as in the phrase “...should be displayed...
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Text 2 – The Picture of Dorian Gray


The Picture of Dorian Gray, moral fantasy novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in 1891. An archetypal tale of a young man who purchases eternal youth at the expense of his soul, the work is a romantic exposition of Wilde’s own Aestheticism.

The story begins in the art studio of Basil Hallward, who is discussing a current painting with his witty and amoral friend Lord Henry Wotton. Henry thinks that the painting, a portrait of an extraordinarily beautiful young man, should be displayed, but Basil disagrees, fearing that his obsession with the portrait’s subject, Dorian Gray, can be seen in the work. Dorian then arrives, and he is fascinated as Henry explains his belief that one should live life to the fullest by indulging one’s impulses. Henry also points out that beauty and youth are fleeting, and Dorian declares that he would give his soul if the portrait were to grow old and wrinkled while he remained young and handsome. Basil gives the painting to Dorian.


From: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray-novel-by-Wilde. Accessed on 10/15/2025
In the passage “...can be seen in the work...”, the modal verb can expresses:
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Text 2 – The Picture of Dorian Gray


The Picture of Dorian Gray, moral fantasy novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in 1891. An archetypal tale of a young man who purchases eternal youth at the expense of his soul, the work is a romantic exposition of Wilde’s own Aestheticism.

The story begins in the art studio of Basil Hallward, who is discussing a current painting with his witty and amoral friend Lord Henry Wotton. Henry thinks that the painting, a portrait of an extraordinarily beautiful young man, should be displayed, but Basil disagrees, fearing that his obsession with the portrait’s subject, Dorian Gray, can be seen in the work. Dorian then arrives, and he is fascinated as Henry explains his belief that one should live life to the fullest by indulging one’s impulses. Henry also points out that beauty and youth are fleeting, and Dorian declares that he would give his soul if the portrait were to grow old and wrinkled while he remained young and handsome. Basil gives the painting to Dorian.


From: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray-novel-by-Wilde. Accessed on 10/15/2025
When teaching the process of word formation and the allophonic variations of the inflectional suffix -s in the third person singular of verbs in the simple present tense, the teacher may employ the excerpt from The Picture of Dorian Gray, in which the allophone [s] is illustrated in:
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 Text 1– The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)


Pluto– this was the cat’s name– was my favorite pet and playmate. I alone Blank I him, and he attended me wherever I went about the house. It was even with difficulty that I could prevent him from following me through the streets.

Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character– through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance– had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. I Blank II, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence. My pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my disposition. I not only neglected, but ill-used them. For Pluto, however, I still retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits, the monkey, or even the dog, when by accident, or through affection, they came in my way. But my disease grew upon me– for what disease is like Alcohol!– and at length even Pluto, who was now becoming old, and consequently somewhat peevish– even Pluto Blank III to experience the effects of my ill temper.

 From: https://poestories.com/read/blackcat. Accessed on 10/15/2025
The verbs that correctly fill in Blanks I, II and III are respectively:
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        Since the 1950s, researchers, inventors and entrepreneurs have been fascinated by the idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replicate human behaviour and thinking into technology. Over time AI has evolved to mimic human behaviour in information technology (IT) with key milestones like machine learning, natural language processing and understanding, generative AI and orchestrating decision making and now the latest advancement: agentic AI.

        Today, AI is not just a technology but a critical part of modern IT strategies. AI in the IT industry has been a transformative force, automating tasks, analysing vast amounts of data and improving operational processes. By using AI for ITSM, organisations can adapt to a changing technology landscape and complex digital environments and keep their IT infrastructure future proof.

        AI has come a long way from theory to software to recent innovations like machine learning (ML). ML is about developing AI algorithms and models that help systems learn and make decisions based on patterns and relationships in data. Instead of programming each decision manually, systems can make decisions on their own based on large amounts of data. Continuous learning on data allows systems to get better over time. At the next level is natural language processing (NLP), a branch of machine learning that’s about interpreting human language and generating intelligent and contextual responses. By using ML algorithms on language, machines can do things like response generation, speech recognition, language translation and more. NLP is the foundation for modern day chatbots that can understand user intent and generate responses to user requests.

         AI is revolutionizing ITSM by introducing innovative solutions such as an AI service desk that enhances IT operations. With automated ticket triaging, routing, deflection, and process automation, organizations can streamline tasks that IT agents encounter daily.

        By providing agents with agent assist capabilities and an AI Copilot, organizations can reduce redundant and repetitive service tasks and improve productivity, thereby minimizing the need for human intervention in these repetitive tasks. With AIOps, organizations can also stay ahead of potential incidents and outages with proactive detection and remediation, as well as automated incident management.

        AI also plays a big role in software development and testing. It helps quality assurance teams by generating test cases and predicting defects. This means they can catch and fix bugs much earlier which prevents bigger issues down the line. When it comes to data center security, computer vision is a powerful tool. It allows systems to analyze images and videos to monitor infrastructure and spot anything unusual. Additionally, machine learning models can analyze network traffic in real time to detect cyber threats and fraud and allow teams to respond quickly and protect their systems.

Internet:<aisera.com>  (adapted).
In the period “This means they can catch and fix bugs much earlier which prevents bigger issues down the line.” the modal verb “can” has the meaning of 
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461: C
462: C
463: B
464: A
465: A
466: B
467: C
468: B
469: C
470: D
471: B
472: A
473: B
474: E
475: D
476: A
477: D
478: A
479: C
480: B